International relations policy specialist. So so raw as President Trump is getting hit taste of his own medicine of maximum pressure and while hes under the threat of impeachment right now is this going to soften up his stance going into thursdays negotiations to be more consolatory or is this likely to make him more antagonistic i hope it will make him more conciliatory because he needs to be conciliatory if there is going to be an agreement the chinese have kind of the the framework for an agreement if mr trump is really interested in that they have talked of the trade balance can certainly be dealt with issues of Market Access can be dealt with issues of Investor Protection can be dealt with but issues related to National Security and issues related to state owned enterprises lets do that a little. Theres enough on the table to have a good agreement at a time when manufacturing and Services Numbers are among the worst manufacturing numbers worst in a decade so says numbers of worst